I hate that, too. I solve this problem by eating _half_ of whatever is left. So, you keep splitting the piece in two until you need an electron microscope to make the cut. You get the comfort of knowing the popcorn still exists, if only on the molecular level.
Hah! Dorothy, I think we commenters, and the net generally, are awfully heavy on math and science. Thank you for being a breath of fresh air to that environment.
Seriously, I don’t know. If I don’t learn these things, I’ll NEVER pass the citizenship test! And Cat and Girl will always be beautifully sad and ambiguous…
It also is a brand of chocolate-covered peanut, a brand of mixed peanut-butter-and-jelly, a character on the Andy Griffith Show, and a derogatory word meaning “idiot” or “scatterbrain.”
You are all wrong and right about goober. Goober was the brand name for a mixture of peanut-butter and jelly that came in the same jar. However, in the context that cat is using it, it has the slang meaning of some sticky gross stuff…like a booger. :)
February 5, 2009
I hate that, too. I solve this problem by eating _half_ of whatever is left. So, you keep splitting the piece in two until you need an electron microscope to make the cut. You get the comfort of knowing the popcorn still exists, if only on the molecular level.
February 5, 2009
Hah! Dorothy, I think we commenters, and the net generally, are awfully heavy on math and science. Thank you for being a breath of fresh air to that environment.
February 6, 2009
Is goober something good or bad?
Seriously, I don’t know. If I don’t learn these things, I’ll NEVER pass the citizenship test! And Cat and Girl will always be beautifully sad and ambiguous…
February 6, 2009
goober = spit, right?
February 6, 2009
The phrase “filed under ‘comic'” makes me smile.
February 6, 2009
time will wear the goober to dust. unless cat changes his mind about it.
(i thought goober was peanut-butter-and-jelly?)
February 6, 2009
Something about Cat always reminds me of Greil Marcus.
February 10, 2009
a goober is a type of candy, silly people! they usually sell them at movie theatres
February 10, 2009
Goober means peanut.
It also is a brand of chocolate-covered peanut, a brand of mixed peanut-butter-and-jelly, a character on the Andy Griffith Show, and a derogatory word meaning “idiot” or “scatterbrain.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goober
…what did people do before Wikipedia?
April 20, 2009
You are all wrong and right about goober. Goober was the brand name for a mixture of peanut-butter and jelly that came in the same jar. However, in the context that cat is using it, it has the slang meaning of some sticky gross stuff…like a booger. :)
November 22, 2010
but in relevance to movie theatre popcorn, it’s chocolate coated peanut candy.
December 20, 2010
as long ago as in the civil war era, a “goober”, more specifically, a “goober pea” was a peanut, hence the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBfPx6yFPSM
but i’m pretty sure that’s not what cat is referring to.
October 1, 2013
In a gooey clot of semigelatinous butterlike substance. And at that particular temperature that renders its texture as flavored lard.